# \[X\] WMA: Should "COMMENT" map to "Description" or "WM/Comments"?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [January 20, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805 "2009-01-20T00:50:51Z")
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### Author: ![Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/moonbase/32/207_2.png) [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805/1 "2009-01-20T00:50:51Z")

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As I have no WMA specification at hand, I'm a little unsure if "COMMENT" should really map to "Description" (what kind of field is that?) or to "WM/Comments" because I've seen _both_.

(Picard uses "WM/Comments", for instance.)

Florian, any hard facts on this?

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2009, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805/2 "2009-01-20T10:56:58Z")

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See [MSDN: Attributes for Music Files](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384498(VS.85).aspx) where Description is listed and WM/Comments is not.

Funny, that you've posted this as bug report.

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### Author: ![Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/moonbase/32/207_2.png) [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805/3 "2009-01-20T12:30:51Z")

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Thanks for the link.

> [@Florian](#):
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> Funny, that you've posted this as bug report.

Well, since I had no specs, I thought this might be the best place (in case it _was_ a bug). And I _knew_ you would know the answer offhand 🙂

Then again, I just found it it in the [official »attributes that correspond to ID3 tags« list](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa386866(VS.85).aspx). I guess that’s also the list MusicBrainz use, have to ask Lukas.

But I agree now that »Description« seems to be the »more general one« and thus should be used in Mp3tag.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wma-should-comment-map-to-description-or-wm-comments/7805/4 "2018-12-28T14:24:48Z")

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